Vicksburg owed $286K for property upkeep

11:05 PM,
Jun. 29, 2013

Written by

John Surratt
| The Vicksburg Post

The city of Vicksburg has $286,370 in uncollected debt on its books that some city officials say it might never fully recover.

It's money the city says 143 property owners owe for cutting, cleaning, clearing, and, in some cases, removing buildings from 238 parcels between 2009 and May.

The state of Mississippi owns nearly half of those properties, 67, representing parcels never bought at county tax sales or reclaimed by the owners within two years after the sale, meaning they were forfeited to the state and remain on the market. ...